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Re: Georgian

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, June 5, 2006, 1:42
On 6/4/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> However, I don't find this too strange: that morpheme probably makes a > transitive verb intransitive, which isn't strange, if the lexicon > entry for that verb is transitive (a reasonable default for 'to see').
Nope. The verb stays transitive, but has no object explicitly encoded in the verb form. In general in Georgian the number and person of both the subject and object are encoded by a verbal affix. The default object is 3rd person (of indeterminate number). Other affixes change that default, and one option is to remove the object specification altogether. My comparison to the virama was well-considered. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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